On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 04:08:35PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit e4bfded56cf39b8d02733c1e6ef546b97961e18a ]
> >
> > Symptom: application opens /dev/ttyGS0 and starts sending (writing) to
> > it while either USB cable is not connected, or nobody listens on the
> > other side of the cable. If driver circular buffer overflows before
> > connection is established, no data will be written to the USB layer
> > until/unless /dev/ttyGS0 is closed and re-opened again by the
> > application (the latter besides having no means of being notified about
> > the event of establishing of the connection.)
> >
> > Fix: on open and/or connect, kick Tx to flush circular buffer data to
> > USB layer.
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c
> > index d4d317db89df5..38afe96c5cd26 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c
> > @@ -567,8 +567,10 @@ static int gs_start_io(struct gs_port *port)
> > port->n_read = 0;
> > started = gs_start_rx(port);
> >
> > - /* unblock any pending writes into our circular buffer */
> > if (started) {
> > + gs_start_tx(port);
> > + /* Unblock any pending writes into our circular buffer, in case
> > + * we didn't in gs_start_tx() */
> > tty_wakeup(port->port.tty);
>
> I'm confused. gs-start_tx() is done twice in a row. Its return
> convention seem to be 0 in success case, and non-zero on failure. But
> it is assigned to variable called "started", which does not sound like
> "error" to me.
>
> Are you sure this is correct?
The function before 'if (started)' is gs_start_rx() - it's RX not TX.
Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
